i feel exhausted.. didn't get much done this week , the pose from above is a pain in the a**... he should be fragile and weak, but looks so wonky... will pass away this "design" anyway, doesn't suit my intentions...

first time with silhouettes, this seems pretty good for overall shape and stuff.. its fun, allthough i'm struggling with perspective and proportions alot there.. and having difficulties with exploring design, when having those problems.. humm..

sweet lord, there certainly is some progression here. Love the Silhouettes, thats something I never tried and am not very keen on!
Are you actually working for that game? Sweet.
I especially love the pose and expression on that lunatic in the last pic with the long hair. Great!

The colours are nice, and I like the new rock floor, without the cracks, though the other one wasn't bad either.
I also really like the linework in the phone doodles. The demon gaces work very nicely. The streamlined look is interesting.

Your character designs are great.
I really like the silhouettes from post #62, i want to try something like that myself.
The silhouettes you chose was nr 2 from the first row, right?. It looks a lot like the rendered piece from post #66.

janos: i feel that the last painting is very boring and monochrome.. spoke about it painting with my .. eh.. "teacher".. he felt the same and pointed out some more mistakes with materials.. that they look all the same and that the lighting is mostly wrong..

fumble: the paint is done from the drawing in post #59 on page 2.. just tried to turn it into a full illustration

two color sketches for new illus.. dunno how to work off without lines, feeling very very uncomfortable.. any advises? suggestions? workflow? damn :/

I'm no good at drawing without lines, so no advice from me or you'll just get worse. One thing you could try is squinting with your eyes, to see if the lighting/values are working. i just did that, and the new ones look nice. The left one has a nicer pose, so I'd work with that one. Also the colours look a lot more natural/pleasing to the eye now.

some doodles from head while writing, phoning and waiting for 3d job applications. i'm enjoying my free time, which i havn't had for about 3 years now, ..

janos: thx alot, everything works out after a while, time heals all wounds.. and yep was a lot of hard work, the rendering took so long for the female mage, that i couldn't put in more closeups and stuff (15 minutes per frame) already hat around 1000 frames to render. greetz,

Eyo!
Nice stuff. Try to use your free time as good as possible. Develop your sketching, sketch ALL THE TIME. I think that will help your digital work as well. You could even try some very new stuff, like watercolour or other new techniques and experiment. Soon you'll be doing §d as a job, so I guess some distraction might help!

Redbull at first wanted a robot motocross driver, than a mix, but afterwards returend to plain "realism" and they choose a normal driver.. still have to work up the costume concepts for that to show 'em

matte painting

some 3d modeling, texturing, shading and render by me..

oh and one personal sketch back from december which i still like.. got some other new ones to.. have to photograph them..

@Janos: hrhr, yeah, posting some more, look at the date, we got october now... damn.. time runs fast.. have been in some serious projects which made me work a lot.. meaning up to 14 hours at some days...

still some stuff from the last months, at least worth a little showing..

value study ~ 1h

Bouguereaus Study, ~ 4,5 hours, could study forever on this one ... his gentle use of colors and form is genius ..

alot has happened
attended a Workshop in end of March with Master Glenn Vilppu for 2 weeks... and getting back into gear, decided to push my drawing skills a lot further... really changed all my attitude about everything.. feel different.

lost mostly all fears from the past of messing up, still do, but i just keep on going.

studying wesley burts rendering, as i'm still bad at it, and on the other hand trying to do it on my own. 30 sec - 1 min gestures daily again.

have been sick last week for some days, didn't manage to draw as much as i want

still trying to learn anatomy and doing gestures for warm up..

selected stuff from that week till today.. i try to build up the knowledge from memory by always redrawing basic volumes and building up the anatomy.. i'm down to the lower leg now.. only feet left.. when i'm there, i'll go back to the top...